Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and the greatest of all the American civil observances. We talked last week about being a people who not only give thanks for, but also thanks to. We have been blessed with abundance. There is a source of the abundance: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The first in the line of fourth Thursday in November days of Thanksgiving was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the year of Gettsyburg and Vicksburg, costly victories in a war than would drag on for another eighteen months.
Lincoln understood thanksgiving. For and to: